A POSTAL service watchdog body is investigating all 35 cases of mail mayhem reported to the Pioneer by its readers.

We have forwarded a catalogue of complaints about badly delivered and missing post to the independent Postwatch organisation.

We started our campaign to get postal problems sorted out on March 19 and are receiving, on average, six fresh grumbles a week.

Sharon Niven, of Postwatch, said: 'We thank the Pioneer for bringing these matters to our attention, which we will now investigate.'

One of the latest to complain is Jacqui Gray, threatened with court action because of missing mail.

As a tenant, she gets a form from the council twice a year asking if her circumstances have changed. But she never received the latest one.

Her housing benefit was stopped as a result. Because this pays for her rent, the council didn't receive any rent for a while.

The mother-of-three, from Little Sutton, was then told she had built up &#xA3;400 rent arrears and was being taken to court.

She has appealed against this decision and is working with the council and Royal Mail to sort things out.

She said: 'The first I knew of the missing form and rent arrears was when I was told I was being taken to court.'

A Whitby woman's passport was lost just days before she needed it to go on holiday.

She sent it, as proof of ID, to the DVLA in order to get a new driving licence. It was returned to her by recorded delivery, but never arrived.

The woman said: 'The Post Office found the passport had been delivered to my house but, because I wasn't there to sign for it, it was taken to the local sorting office.

'The Post Office never told me it was there.'

When she didn't claim it, the passport was sent to a mail centre in Portsmouth and has now vanished.

The woman said: 'When I heard this, I just broke down in tears. Someone else has my ID.'

When Matthew Knight moved from Great Sutton to Elton, he paid &#xA3;13 to have his mail redirected for three months. But some bank statements and medical appointments were still delivered to his old address.

A birthday card sent to an Overpool woman by her daughter went missing and turned up in the Chester sorting office some time later. A birthday card from her son vanished.

Amelia Thomas of Ellesmere Port sent away for a poster. The envelope it arrived in had been torn open and stapled up, and was stained and dirty.

She said her grandmother, who lives in Stanney Lane, Little Stanney, has lots of letters sent to Ellesmere Port Police Station in Stanney Lane in error.